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Grimm

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–noun
Ja⋅kob Lud⋅wig Karl  [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl, lood-] , 1785–1863, and his brother Wil⋅helm Karl  [vil-helm] , 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
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Grimm   (grĭm)   
German philologist and folklorist who formulated Grimm's Law (1819), the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).
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